The Sociable Lapwing(Vanellus gregarius) was recently categorized as Critically Endangered by the IUCN due to a strong decline and overall range contraction.Until now the only published Chinese record of the species w...The Sociable Lapwing(Vanellus gregarius) was recently categorized as Critically Endangered by the IUCN due to a strong decline and overall range contraction.Until now the only published Chinese record of the species was a vagrant sighting in 1998.We reviewed reports and historic literature from a German ornithological expedition in 1876,which reported the species to be a breeding bird in Xinjiang,western China in the second half of the 19th century.According to local expertise,the species seems since to have become extinct in Xinjiang,but surveys are suggested to clarify its current status.展开更多
The author establishes a large deviation for k-dimensional Brownian motion B in stronger topology, by which the functional modulus of continuity for B in Holder norm can be obtained.
基金funded by the Darwin Initiative of the UK government and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB)support from Swarovski optics, The Rufford Foundation and Deutsche Ornithologen-Gesellschaft (DO-G)
文摘The Sociable Lapwing(Vanellus gregarius) was recently categorized as Critically Endangered by the IUCN due to a strong decline and overall range contraction.Until now the only published Chinese record of the species was a vagrant sighting in 1998.We reviewed reports and historic literature from a German ornithological expedition in 1876,which reported the species to be a breeding bird in Xinjiang,western China in the second half of the 19th century.According to local expertise,the species seems since to have become extinct in Xinjiang,but surveys are suggested to clarify its current status.
文摘The author establishes a large deviation for k-dimensional Brownian motion B in stronger topology, by which the functional modulus of continuity for B in Holder norm can be obtained.
